YEAR 5 On Horizon since Hurricane Katrina. It is shameful that there is CONTINUING LACK ! NOW ADD, Gushing Oil Since May, in THE GULF!
ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHY for Years to come. Ways of Life Gone.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

OIL HITS LOUISIANA COAST

Let it be known, I am NOT in agreement with off-shore drilling, or drilling in general. It does too much damage, much we aren't even aware of YET.

This current Disaster IS another Katrinaesque bomb of destruction beyond comprehension. It is truly sad and it is a dire consequence of greed and misunderstanding of the inter-workings and even the tiniest dynamics of the Earth which WE continue to take lightly and destroy!

THIS is the point at which I stop taking it as lightly as I have, even though I have been against certain things.

THIS is where I SPEAK. "Drill Baby Drillers" and your ridiculously irresponsible, money-driven, earth and life-destroying greed MUST END! And to start, you can take your oil rigs and stuff them where the sun doesn't shine!

Gara - Mississippi Gulf Coast Advocate

for Clean and Beautiful

Oxford, MS

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Via Twitter: ( 9:30 pm)

@BARBIEBASSETT (in Jackson, MS) - Gotten several calls tonight from viewers smelling the oil from the Gulf of Mexico.

FOLLOW me on Twitter @mswxChick if you're into weather and the Great Oil Disaster, pick up people I follow there and you'll have great info all the time! This is not a "chat" Twittershere![Posted via iPhone]

Links

Under Surge, Under Siege - Ellis Anderson (former blog was Katrina Patina) is a writer and community activist who tells her own story of riding out Katrina. She also offers us an award winning memoir of her beloved town's journey through Katrina and the aftermath in "Language of Loss."

Update for Ellis: Her new book, which came from her blog, will be out August 2010. It is titled "Under Surge, Under Siege - the Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina"

Life Among DebrisHwy. 90 Bridge, Ocean Springs, MS – Nov. 2005
As I walked off of the highway and down the slope, I noticed that within the debris on the ground
that Katrina had left behind, a bright sign of the renewal of life had sprung up. Never fear that life continues onward and upward through destruction.

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